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Genus Tepidibacillus
Name: Tepidibacillus Slobodkina et al. 2014
Etymology: Te.pi.di.ba.cil’lus. L. masc. adj. tepidus, warm; L. masc. n. bacillus, small rod; N.L. masc. n. Tepidibacillus, a small rod from a warm habitat
Gender, pronunciation: masculine (stem: Tepidibacill-), te-pi-di-ba-KIL-lus
Type species: Tepidibacillus fermentans Slobodkina et al. 2014
Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS
Effective publication:
Slobodkina GB, Panteleeva AN, Kostrikina NA, Kopitsyn DS, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Slobodkin AI. Tepidibacillus fermentans gen. nov., sp. nov.: a moderately thermophilic anaerobic and microaerophilic bacterium from an underground gas storage. Extremophiles 2013; 17:833-839. 
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IJSEM list:
Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 155. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1-5.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
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Emendations:
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Podosokorskaya et al. 2016
Podosokorskaya OA, Merkel AY, Gavrilov SN, Fedoseev I, Heerden EV, Cason ED, Novikov AA, Kolganova TV, Korzhenkov AA, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, et al. Tepidibacillus infernus sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic, selenate- and arsenate-respiring hydrolytic bacterium isolated from a gold mine, and emended description of the genus Tepidibacillus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3189-3194. 🇷🇺
Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4306-4309.
Notes:- ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
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Podosokorskaya et al. 2016
Podosokorskaya OA, Merkel AY, Gavrilov SN, Fedoseev I, Heerden EV, Cason ED, Novikov AA, Kolganova TV, Korzhenkov AA, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, et al. Tepidibacillus infernus sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic, selenate- and arsenate-respiring hydrolytic bacterium isolated from a gold mine, and emended description of the genus Tepidibacillus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3189-3194.
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Notes:
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🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Tepidibacillaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024.
Publication:
Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺
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🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order Tepidibacillales Chuvochina et al. 2024.
Publication:
Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺
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🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Tepidibacillaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024.
Publication:
Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺
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🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the order Tepidibacillales Chuvochina et al. 2024.
Publication:
Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Tepdibacillus".
- 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is -0.00776 (N = 2).
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 3; VKM: 2; ATCC: 1; JCM: 1.
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🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Tepidibacillaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024.
Publication:
Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 4
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4
Total number of child taxa: 4
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Tepidibacillus decaturensis Dong et al. 2016 validly published under the ICNP correct name Tepidibacillus fermentans Slobodkina et al. 2014 validly published under the ICNP correct name Tepidibacillus infernus Podosokorskaya et al. 2016 validly published under the ICNP correct name Tepidibacillus marianensis Li et al. 2024 validly published under the ICNP correct name
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Parent taxon: Bacillaceae Fischer 1895 (Approved Lists 1980)
Assigned by:
Podosokorskaya OA, Merkel AY, Gavrilov SN, Fedoseev I, Heerden EV, Cason ED, Novikov AA, Kolganova TV, Korzhenkov AA, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, et al. Tepidibacillus infernus sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic, selenate- and arsenate-respiring hydrolytic bacterium isolated from a gold mine, and emended description of the genus Tepidibacillus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3189-3194. 🇷🇺
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